BambooHR + Bruin

Source

Ingest BambooHR data into your warehouse with incremental loading, quality checks, and full lineage. Defined in YAML, version-controlled in Git.

For business teams

What you get

People analytics beyond HR tools
Join BambooHR data with finance and project data. See fully-loaded team cost, hiring ROI, and attrition trends.
Headcount planning with real data
Combine BambooHR org data with budget and project data. Plan headcount based on actual numbers, not estimates.
Compliance-ready data
Quality checks validate that required fields are present, records are consistent, and org hierarchy is valid.
Faster reporting cycles
BambooHR data syncs automatically. HR and finance get fresh data without waiting for someone to pull a report.

For data & engineering teams

How it works

Automatic schema handling
Bruin detects BambooHR schema changes and handles them automatically. No manual migration scripts.
YAML-defined, Git-versioned
Your BambooHR pipeline is a YAML file. Review in PRs, deploy with CI/CD, roll back with git revert.
Hierarchy validation
Custom SQL checks validate manager-employee relationships and catch orphaned records in BambooHR org data.
Incremental sync
Only sync new and changed BambooHR records. Full org structure stays in sync without re-processing everything.

Before you start

BambooHR account with API access

API key from Account Settings

Admin permissions

Step 1

Add your BambooHR connection

Connect using BambooHR API key. Add this to your Bruin environment file — credentials are stored securely and referenced by name in your pipeline YAML.

Parameters

api_keyBambooHR API key
company_domainYour BambooHR subdomain

connections:
  bamboohr:
    type: bamboohr
    uri: "bamboohr://api_key@company_domain.bamboohr.com"

Step 2

Create your pipeline

Define a YAML asset that tells Bruin what to pull from BambooHR and where to land it. This file lives in your Git repo — reviewable, version-controlled, and deployable with CI/CD.

Available tables

employeestime_offbenefitsjob_historycompensationdirectories

name: raw.bamboohr_employees
type: ingestr

parameters:
  source_connection: bamboohr
  source_table: 'employees'
  destination: bigquery

# Syncs employee records, org structure,
# and HR data with automatic schema handling.

Step 3

Add quality checks

Validate BambooHR data on every sync. Catch invalid org hierarchies, missing departments, and orphaned employee records automatically.

Validate manager-employee hierarchy is valid

Catch employees with null departments

Ensure employee IDs are unique across syncs

columns:
  - name: employee_id
    checks:
      - name: not_null
      - name: unique
  - name: email
    checks:
      - name: not_null
  - name: department
    checks:
      - name: not_null

custom_checks:
  - name: no employees without manager
    query: |
      SELECT COUNT(*) = 0
      FROM raw.bamboohr_employees
      WHERE department IS NOT NULL
        AND manager_id IS NULL
        AND role != 'CEO'

Step 4

Run it

One command. Bruin connects to BambooHR, pulls data incrementally, runs your quality checks, and lands clean data in your warehouse. If a check fails, the pipeline stops — bad data never reaches downstream.

Backfill historical data with --start-date

Schedule with cron or trigger from CI/CD

Full lineage from BambooHR to your dashboards

$ bruin run .

Running pipeline...

  bamboohr_employees
    ✓ Fetched 2,847 new records
    ✓ Quality: campaign_id not_null     PASSED
    ✓ Quality: spend not_null           PASSED
    ✓ Quality: no negative ad spend     PASSED
    ✓ Loaded into bigquery

  Completed in 12s

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Ready to connect BambooHR?

Start for free, or book a demo to see how Bruin handles ingestion, quality, lineage, and scheduling for your entire data stack.

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